The work

Each engagement behaves like a live matter compressed into turns. You receive a fact pattern — a lease dispute, a failed purchase and sale, a construction delay, a zoning or entitlement fight, a receivership or foreclosure posture — and draft the work product a real matter would call for: a motion to dismiss, a summary judgment brief, requests for production, a demand letter, an opposition to opposing counsel's filing. Opposing submissions and senior feedback arrive between turns, and your job is to absorb both without abandoning your case theory or contradicting positions you took two turns earlier.

Alongside each draft you write rubric items: explicit, checkable criteria describing what a strong response to that turn contains and what a weak one misses. This is the part attorneys most often underestimate. "Cites the correct standard" is not a rubric item; "identifies that the notice-to-cure provision was not satisfied and therefore the termination is defective regardless of the breach" is. You are also expected to flag procedural gaps, missing facts, and jurisdictional ambiguities rather than paper over them — a raised flag is a deliverable, not a failure.

What the screen looks for

  • Verifiable bar admission in at least one US jurisdiction (active or lapsed), and at least three years post-JD litigation experience with real drafting behind it — motion practice and discovery, not solely transactional real estate work.
  • Depth in commercial real estate substance: leases, landlord–tenant, purchase and sale, development and construction, zoning, financing and security interests. Expect follow-ups that go a layer past your first answer.
  • Whether you can take direction. The role explicitly mirrors submitting drafts for partner review, and "incorporates feedback with minimal redirection" is a stated evaluation criterion.
  • Writing that holds legal register under pressure. Everything you produce is read as work product.

Logistics

Remote, US-based, contractor engagement, fully asynchronous. Observed pay for this listing runs $100–150/hr, varying with experience and matter complexity; nothing about rate or volume is guaranteed. micro1 typically fills these roles within about 48 hours and expects first tasks within 24–48 hours of onboarding, so this suits attorneys with genuinely open capacity rather than a hoped-for gap next month. No AI experience is required or expected.